Reluctance to automate leads to problems for enterprise network firewalls

Enterprises are slow to abandon manual processes, despite being short of staff, and a lack of automation, increasing network complexity and limited visibility are contributing to costly misconfigurations and increased risk. This is among the findings of the 2019 State of the Firewall Report released today by security automation specialist FireMon, the report is based on responsed from almost 600 people. The report reveals that cloud adoption is up significantly -- 72 percent of respondents are managing some form of hybrid cloud environment today, compared to the 53 percent in the 2018 report. However, processes to manage these networks are… [Continue Reading]